The Ruston-Lincoln Convention and Visitors Bureau will host its annual Tourism Development Grant Workshop beginning at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the Ruston Lincoln Visitors Center, located at 2111 North Trenton Street.

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A Grambling woman faces child desertion charges today after her 4-year-old son was discovered standing the in the driveway of a neighbor’s home, barefoot and clad only in a T-shirt and underwear.

Grambling police arrested Tyesha Jefferson 27, of 182 Mansfield States, around 6 a.m. Thursday after she apparently left her sleeping child alone while she went to retrieve a lost purse from a Ruston business.

Police reports say a neighbor spotted the boy in her driveway shortly after 4 a.m. and called authorities. The neighbor told police she didn’t know the child.

As the prep and college football season starts up, youngsters in the parish looking to knock helmets on the gridiron are in luck as Ruston Parks and Recreation will be offering tackle football for the first time this season.

“We did our research over the winter months last year of other park and recreation departments and realized we should be offering a tackle football program,” Ashlynn Shell, RPAR recreation supervisor, said. “It adds another dimension to our catalogue of programs.”

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers completed their special session on taxes Thursday after raising $263 million more for the state's operating budget, lessening — but not completely closing — gaps in health and education programs.

The House and Senate fell far short of the revenue goal set by Gov. John Bel Edwards to raise $600 million more for the $26 billion budget that starts July 1. But on top of taxes boosted earlier this year, they had raised about $1.5 billion to shrink holes in the spending plan.

In his tragic love story “Romeo & Juliet,” William Shakespeare wrote, “These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume; the sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite ...”